... real relationship with Crowley could be the basis of something bigger, the kernel of truth at the heart of all successful disinformation. In the first instance the 'transcripts' of some of the conversations with Crowley,5 and then the solution to the Dallas mystery. A witness to the relationship between Douglas and the CIA officers exists. A retired FBI agent, Tom Kimmel, who knew Crowley was talking to Douglas, commented that he could not understand why the 'very introspective, very accomplished intelligence officer' Crowley 'embraced Stahl [Douglas] so unequivocally'. (p . 353) It might just have been that Douglas was skilled at flattering an old intelligence officer who had developed a ...

... Armed and Dangerous: the corporate origins of war with Iran Dr. Roger Cottrell Preamble In November 2011 claims emerged of an unlikely assassination plot against the Saudi Arabian ambassador to the US.1 According to the FBI, an alcoholic car salesman in Texas, Manssor Arbasier, with a spurious family connection to a member of Iran's Revolutionary Guard, plotted with the Mexican Los Zetas drug cartel to kill the Saudi ambassador on orders from forces within the Iranian State.2 The source of these allegations was a Mexican gangster, already facing criminal charges on an unrelated matter, who was coerced to offer his services as an assassin for $1 .5 million by the FBI. Although ...

... and let it happen, before arresting 'the plumbers'. Even if, as is speculated here, that policeman was linked to the CIA in some way, this is not setting them up.1 The book is interesting chiefly as a firsthand account of a career agent/agent provocateur for the American local and national state – police, FBI, and God knows who else (half the time Merritt seemed to neither know nor care for whom he was really working). To my knowledge there has been nothing quite like this before, if the author is to be believed. Maybe Louis Tackwood's claims2 come closest; but Merritt's activities are on another planet, if he is ...

... in the 20th century: scientist, athlete, army officer (ironically George A. Custer), New Dealer, unionist, anti-communist, and spokesman for a variety of corporate interests, mainly the General Electric trust. He became rich from speculation when real estate was being expropriated from Japanese-Americans in California and influential as an FBI informer. All told it was an excellent record to propel him into the California governor's mansion as the representative of its most reactionary business elements. However it was not until the so-called 'Reagan Revolution' that the con-man from GE and FBI stooge became the leading light of American idealism. Reagan's presidency and the nauseating hagiography ...

... On Political Assassinations(1 ) is a very interesting essay by William Turner, 'RFK, Charles de Gaulle and the Farewell America plot', about the events leading up to the publication of the book Farewell America about the Kennedy assassination.(2 ) This may be marginalia but it is interesting margin- alia nonetheless. Notably, former FBI agent Turner tells us: that the book may have resulted from contact between the Garrison inquiry and the KGB. Working for New Orleans DA Jim Garrison, Turner wondered what the Soviets knew about Oswald and sent someone to contact the KGB in Mexico City. (Innocent days, eh? In the midst of the most sensitive inquiry imaginable ...

... to campaign contributions and the rest – some $3 .4 billion – went to lobbying. The study finds that in 2007 alone, there were nearly 3,000 registered federal lobbyists working in the financial sector. '( 14) Fraud A regulator turned academic, William K. Black, wrote in Febru-ary on how the FBI had begun warning about an epidemic of mortgage fraud by the sellers of mortgages in 2004 but had been ignored. By then the US financial sector had become a 'crimino-genic environment', at whose heart were the US credit rating agencies which had been giving out triple A ratings on bonds based on mortgages (CDOs) without checking ...

... Linda Melvern's obituary of him in The Independent, 6 November 2008. 'He commissioned an autobiographical account of my life "on the road to a doctorate" for which I was paid. But the actual goal was to recruit me as an informer concerning professors at Columbia, particularly Zbigniew Brzezinski, and my fellow students and their connections with the FBI and the CIA. When my suspicions were finally aroused.....I returned the money and broke off contact. This ended my career as an informer, while the agent pocketed the money. ' John J. Kulczycki, 'My experience as a paid informer of the Polish Security Service', East European Politics and Societies ...

... (c ) www.lobster-magazine.co.uk (Issue 56) Winter 2008/9 Last | Contents | Next Issue 56 Britain spinning in the Sibel Edmonds web Danny Weston Sibel Edmonds, the former FBI translator turned whistle-blower, claimed in 2002 to have uncovered an extensive nuclear black market with links to officials in governments across the globe, including the U.S . and U.K . Despite recent exposure this year in the U.K . 's Sunday Times, (1 ) her allegations have reached few other mainstream outlets. Despite being published in a British paper of record, it appears that no investigative journalists have chosen to ...

... 28.95 Of all the figures in the Anglo-American spy world that we have been made aware of in the last 40 years, James Jesus Angleton was the most glamorous: the chain-smoking, the orchid-growing, the poetry-writing – here was the antithesis of the dull, one-dimensional plodders in the FBI (or, for that matter, most of the CIA's 'company men'). Or so reading books and watching movies about spies has told us. There have already been two books about Angleton (5 ) but, as Holzman notes, they were produced during the domestic 'spy wars' period after the crises and sackings of the ...

... (15) Elsewhere, Dora Kostakopoulou claims that New Labour's response to post-9 /11 terrorism evokes a 'siege mode of democracy' and examines in some detail Operation Kratos, the counter-terrorist strategy adopted by ACPO in 2002.(16) And although we've yet to experience a UK equivalent of the Patriot Act (allowing the FBI fairly unhindered access to library records), a recent survey carried out by CILIP (the Chartered Institute of Library and Information Professionals) indicates that libraries are experiencing 'increased police and security services activity. ' (17) It's a conspiracy .'Our findings call into question current questioning about the function of conspiracy theories. If [they] ...